Epistemology of "New" Social Science

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Selected Bibliography
1. Archer, M. et al. (1997), Critical Realism—Essential Readings, London: Routledge.
2. Aronson, J. L., Harré, R., and Way, E. C. (1994), Realism Rescued, London: Duckworth.
3. Ayer, A. J. (ed.) (1959), Logical Positivism, Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
4. Azevedo, J. (1997), Mapping Reality: An Evolutionary Realist Methodology for the Natural and Social Sciences, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
5. Bechtel, W. and R. C. Richardson (1993), Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
6. Bhaskar, R. (1975), A Realist Theory of Science, London: Leeds Books. [2nd ed., London, Verso, 1997].
7. Bhaskar, R. (1979), The Possibility of Naturalism, London: Routledge.
8. Boden, M. A. (ed.) (1996), The Philosophy of Artificial Life, New York: Oxford University Press.
9. Callebaut, W., and Pinxten, R. eds. (1987) Evolutionary Epistemology: A Multiparadigm Program, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Reidel.
10. Cartwright, N. (1999), The Dappled World: A Study of the Boundaries of Science, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
11. Collier, A. (1994), Critical Realism: An Introduction to Roy Bhaskar’s Philosophy, London: Verso.
12. Curd, M. and J. A. Cover (1998), Philosophy of Science: The Central Issues, New York: Norton.
13. Devitt, M. (1984), Realism and Truth, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
14. Friedman, M. (1999), Reconsidering Logical Positivism, New York: Cambridge University Press.
15. Fuller, S. (2000), Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History of Our Times, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
16. Gross, P. R. and N. Levitt (1998), Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press.
17. Gross, P. R., ed. (1996), The Flight from Science and Reason, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press.
18. Hacking, I. (1999), The Social Construction of What, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
19. Hahlweg, K., and Hooker, C. A. (eds.) (1989), Issues in Evolutionary Epistemology, New York: State University of New York Press.
20. Halpern, P. (2000), The Pursuit of Destiny: A History of Prediction, Cambridge, MA: Perseus.
21. Hooker, C. A. (1987), A Realistic Theory of Science, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
22. Hooker, C. A. (1995), Reason, Regulation, and Realism: Toward a Regulatory Systems Theory of Reason and Evolutionary Epistemology, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
23. Hunt, S. D. (1991), Modern Marketing Theory: Critical Issues in the Philosophy of Marketing Science, Cincinnati, OH: South-Western.
24. King, G., R. O Keohane and S. Verba (1994), Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
25. Klee, R. (1997), Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, New York: Oxford University Press.
26. Koertge, N., ed. (1998), A House Build on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths About Science, New York: Oxford University Press.
27. Lawson, T. (1997), Economics & Reality, New York: Routledge.
28. Leplin, J. (Ed.) (1984), Scientific Realism, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
29. McKim, V. R. and Stephen P. Turner (1997), Causality in Crisis: Statistical Methods and the Search for Causal Knowledge in the Social Sciences, Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
30. Miller, D. (1994), Critical Rationalism: A Restatement and Defence, Peru, IL: Open Court.
31. Morgan, M. S. and Morrison, M. (eds.) (2000), Models as Mediators: Perspectives on Natural and Social Science, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
32. Nola, R. (1988), Relativism and Realism in Science, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer.
33. Norris, C. (1997), Against Relativism: Philosophy of Science, Deconstruction, and Critical Theory, Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
34. Outhwaite, W. (1997), New Philosophies of Social Science, London: Macmillan
35. Pearl, J. (2000), Causality: Models, Reasoning, and Inference, New York: Cambridge University Press.
36. Radnitzky, G. and W. W. Bartley, III (Eds.) (1987), Evolutionary Epistemology, Rationality, and the Sociology of Knowledge, La Salle, IL: Open Court.
37. Rescher, N. (1987), Scientific Realism: A Critical Reappraisal, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Reidel.
38. Salmon, M. H, J. Earman, et al. (1999), Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, Indianapolis, IN: Hackett.
39. Salmon, W. C. (1998), Causality and Explanation, New York: Oxford University Press.
40. Sarup, M. (1993), An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism, Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.
41. Sayer, A. (1992), Method in Social Science: A Realist Approach, London: Routledge.
42. Sokal, A. D. and J. Bricmont (1998), Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science, New York: Picador USA.
43. Suppe, F. (1977), The Structure of Scientific Theories (2nd ed.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
44. Suppe, F. (1989), The Semantic Conception of Theories & Scientific Realism, Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press.
45. Thompson, P. (1989), The Structure of Biological Theories (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press,.
46. Williams, M. and T. May (1996), Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Research, London: UCL Press.

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